From the Rector

Dear Parishioners and Friends,

This week the Church celebrates the Feast of the Ascension; the day on which our Lord Jesus Christ ascended bodily into heaven in the sight of his disciples. Indeed, on the day of resurrection, Jesus said to Mary Magdalene, "go to my brothers and say to them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17) After the day of resurrection, he appeared many times in the intervening weeks to his disciples, showing them his wounds, opening their hearts and minds, even breaking bread with them. It must have come as an astonishing relief to them to see their teacher and friend alive. 

I wonder what they felt as they saw him ascending from them? Did they feel overwhelming loss, or wonderment, or both? The book of Acts tells us that as they were standing there, angels appeared and said to them, "men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up towards heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven." (Acts 1:11)

They returned to Jerusalem and, along with some women (including Mary, the mother of Jesus), devoted themselves to prayer until God sent his Holy Spirit on the day of pentecost. In this intervening time, let us also pray that God sends his Holy Spirit upon us for the renewal of the Church and the healing of the world.

Blessings,
Father Rick

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